herbal medicine

1. 1.

   a medicine made from plants and used to prevent or treat disease or promote health

   Broadermedicine
2. 2.

   the use of medicinal herbs to prevent or treat disease or promote health

   Broaderalternative medicine

Questions about herbal medicine

What does herbal medicine mean?

herbal medicine means "a medicine made from plants and used to prevent or treat disease or promote health". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is herbal medicine a common word?

herbal medicine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.